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PDF to HTML Conversion

Hi there!

Does anyone know if it's possible to convert PDF file into html using PHP?

I'm building an online library of downloadable PDFs but, according to an expert, some African countries (which we deal with very often) have extremely low bandwidth. In some cases, I was told, that even downloading 250kb file will pose a problem.

I thought converting them on the fly into html and displaying them in a browser maybe one way to get around this problem.

The problem is, I'm no quite sure how to go about incorporating these applications into the site. Also, as they involve shell scripts and perl, I feel it's not quite right to go on much further in this forum (I'm not quite sure the exact protocol regarding this - Can anyone advise me of this, please?)